KEREN CYTTER 

Video Art Manual 

Zach Feuer Gallery is pleased to present Video Art Manual, an exhibition of films and works on paper by the Israeli artist

Keren Cytter.  The exhibition opens September 10 and will be on view through October 15.

In her films, Cytter explores stories of love, violence, sex, jealousy, betrayal and murder told in non-linear narrative in which  

time overlaps and characters mutate.  The actors repeat lines, switch roles and recite directions aloud creating a shared  

lexicon through repetition and rhyme.  Cytter's fractured stories, suggestive of dream and memory, are often inspired by

direct experience and observation but are filled with literary references, cinematic quotes and clichés drawn from popular  

culture that result in works that are existential dramas composed from seemingly incompatible genres.

The title of the exhibition is taken from Cytter's newest work, video-art: A manual,  which will premiere at Zach Feuer Gallery.   

In the film, Cytter offers a historical analysis of video art and its development the last forty years, focusing on the conditions  

of how contemporary video art is produced, installed and consumed.  Filmed in HD, video-art: A manual is approximately 15

minutes long.  A larger edition in standard definition will be simultaneously released by Texte zur Kunst.

In addition to films and works on paper, Cytter is the author of several novels and an opera libretto and the founder of D.I.E.  

NOW (Dance International Europe Now), a dance and theater company.

Keren Cytter was born in Tel Aviv in 1977. She studied at The Avni Institute in Tel Aviv and received her degree from de  

Ateliers in Amsterdam.  Cytter's work has been featured in solo exhibitions at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam;  Hammer Museum,  Los Angeles; Moderna Museet, Stockholm;Tate Modern, London; Witte de With Center for  Contemporary Art,

Rotterdam; Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna; KW Institute for Contemporary Art,  Berlin and Kunsthalle   

Zürich. Her work was included in the 53rd Venice Biennial; Found in Translation, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; 8th

Gwangju Biennale; Manifesta 7, Trentino; and Talking Pictures and K21 Kunstammlung Nordhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf.    

Cytter currently lives  and works in Berlin.

Exhibition dates: September 10 - October 15, 2011

Opening reception: Saturday, September 10, 6-8PM